Originally Posted by
Caolela
I can say I'm the King of Siam too, Lisa, or that the sun rises in the West. But without evidence it's bullshit. When/if I see credible, verifiable evidence that the Russians hacked the elections then I'll say 'OK impeach him, lock him up', whatever is appropriate. There has been none presented to date, only - "our best conclusions & guessimations" - the word we're supposed to take of a few humps coming out of agencies with a political agenda.
It doesn't work that way when you throw serious charges like this. You'd better have very solid evidence to back it. And that doesn't count the double standard of the U.S. having meddled in dozens of elections over decades - that no one seems to talk about.
A "preponderance of agreement", when only 3 or 4 of the intel agencies out of 17 agreed, and one of those was NSA, the other CIA, the other FBI - the very agencies that rely most on NSA illegal spying? James Clapper had to come back and say that Hillary's claim was BS, it wasn't in fact "all" of the agencies but only a few. Of course he's perjured himself in front of Congress under oath before (that NSA doesn't spy on Americans) so he can't be trusted either.
There's really no other way the 'Russia hacks' leaks could have happened except ultimately through the NSA and with its knowledge, as I have shown, since NSA has access to all data going in and out of the country whether it does so legally or illegally, and also data inside the U.S. (illegal, unconstitutional).
Sorry if that's fairly new and difficult info for some people to process but that's the way it is. How quickly (or conveniently) some have forgotten the Snowden data, let alone that from other whistleblowers which confirms it.
Every single phone call you make or receive, every email, every blog post, every website you look at, every bank transaction, etc. - all is tracked, recorded, and potentially analyzed by the NSA. Very little to nothing you do is private. Even gaming companies like Activision/Blizzard track player's online in-game chat and work with gov't agencies to provide info - also easily searched.
Remember, no matter what laws the Dick n' Bush crew (and later Obama) tried to circumvent with the Patriot Act, et al, according to the U.S. Constitution it is illegal to spy on citizens without warrants and due process/probable cause. That is why the whistleblowers quit the NSA after decades of service - because Binney's & Drake's programs were turned illegal and they wanted no part of it.
That's how NSA knows what Trump's camp did or did not do regarding Russia. That's how NSA knows what the Democrats and Clinton did or did not do regarding the DNC servers and Podesta emails. But they're being very selective with what they release and how it's released.
Everything else is 'Bread and Circuses' for the masses because the MSM has a lot of time to fill each day and ratings to consider, as you and I mentioned earlier. They love the distraction and infotainment while the important issues go largely off the radar.
If any of you had done even a modicum of looking into this you'd know it, instead of inventing every excuse under the sun and craving yet another stupid argument, endless troll posts based on something that came from your backsides.
If some of you are having trouble grasping those hard realities because it conflicts with your world view of your fave parties or candidates, or if it causes you cognitive dissonance, it's not my problem.